If you can't upgrade the firmware or replace the internal Airport card, you could use any 3rd-party external WiFi adapter via USB or the PCMCIA port.
-Mike On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Batey, Everett II NAVSEA < [email protected]> wrote: > > > House full of Apple Ibook PPC G3's (seem stuck on > OS X 10.2.8) .. NOT GOOD. > > Fixing the old security vs current security hole: > (1) use ethernet cable, > (2) try the scrap heap / recycle the parts, > (3) maybe there is a replacement wifi card??? Or, > (4) can Linux on G3 PPC overcome the problem of > NOT supporting WPA2? > > -- > R / Everett > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Outmesguine > > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 21:17 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: wep and wpa > > > > I just came across an old windows 2000 laptop that only > > supported WEP on the Linksys card. But WPA was used on the > > WLAN. Time to buy a new card! > > > > Anyway, WEP is the older, less secure, easy to crack, ... > > > > WPA and WPA2 is newer and more secure. > > > > For more about WPA, here's a good summary: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access > > > > -Mike > > > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rashmi kumar > > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 8:53 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [SOCALWUG] wep and wpa > > > > what is wep and wpa. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
